Charitable

Organisations

Amnesty International
www.amnesty.org

Australian Volunteers International
www.australianvolunteers.com

Australian Conservation Foundation
www.acfonline.org.au
The Australian Conservation Foundation is committed to inspiring people to achieve a healthy environment for all Australians. For 40 years they have been a strong voice for the environment, promoting solutions through research, consultation, education and partnerships. The ACF works with the community, business and government to protect, restore and sustain our environment. The Australian Conservation Foundation partnered with the production company to market the documentary An Inconvenient Truth in a creative outreach campaign. See Case Studies for more details.

Beyond Empathy
www.beyondempathy.org.au
Beyond Empathy works with innovative arts programs to reach the most marginalised young people in Australia who are often beyond the reach of more conventional welfare services.

Often these young people have nothing but their story. Through film, theatre, music, dance, multi media or visual arts, BE helps them to tell that story, build new skills , discover their potential to find and create new opportunities. The aim is to help these people move beyond what have often been life-long patterns of alcohol and drug abuse, homelessness and crime. Some of BE’s ‘graduates’ are now trainee cinematographers, web-site designers, magazine editors, artists, or community workers with the BE team. See Knot@Home in Case Studies for further information.

Big hart
www.bighart.org
BIG HART is a National award winning organisation, working to re-engage marginalised communities & individuals through arts-based projects. It began in 1992 in Tasmania from an initial grant of $15,000. Big hART has since grown to become one of Tasmania's biggest Arts and Social Policy exports.

The organisation has worked on issues including domestic violence, drugs misuse, suicide prevention, literacy, motor accident prevention, truancy, intergenerational addiction and homelessness. BIG hART has developed a Community Cultural Development model that can be applied to achieve national outcomes for a safer Australia, healthier communities and developing the nation's 'at risk' human resources. It offers ideal project partnerships for Local Government, offering proven, ongoing, local solutions for rural and regional communities, which build skills and capacity at the grass roots.

Education Foundation
www.educationfoundation.org.au
Education Foundation Australia is unique in its focus on philanthropic support for public education. It is the only independent, non-profit organisation in Australia that strengthens public education by investing private monies (philanthropic and corporate) into primary and secondary schools. Our focus is educational excellence and equality of opportunity.

Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF)
www.msf.org.au
Médecins Sans Frontières is the world’s leading independent humanitarian organisation for medical aid. Annually, some 3,000 volunteer doctors, nurses and support staff work in trouble spots around the world helping those living on the edge of human tolerance.

Salvation Army
www.salvos.org.au

World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA)
www.wspa.org.uk
WSPA believe that animals should live their lives free from avoidable suffering at the hands of humans; rather than be used inhumanely as ‘raw materials’ for the benefit of mankind.

Inspirational Organisations

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
www.gatesfoundation.org
The foundation's grantmaking philosophy flows from their belief that every human life has equal value. In deciding how to invest resources most responsibly, they look for projects that:

• Help reduce inequities in neglected areas
• Produce measurable results
• Catalyse increased momentum, scale, and sustainability of change
• Collaborate with government, philanthropic, private-sector, and not-for-profit partners
• Favour preventative approaches
• Leverage support from other sources
• Advance current strategies, accelerating the work the foundation is already supporting

Global Giving
www.globalgiving.com
Global Giving believes the world is interconnected and our own well-being depends on the world's prosperity. Their Vision is to?unleash the potential of people around the world to make positive change happen.

Their Mission is to?build an efficient, open, thriving marketplace that connects people who have community and world-changing ideas with people who can support them. GlobalGiving.com is an online marketplace for international giving. Potential donors can browse and select from a wide offering of projects, organized by geography or by themes such as health care, the environment, and education. Once a donor chooses a project, he/she can contribute any amount, using a credit/debit card, check, PayPal, or stock transfer. These contributions directly support the entrepreneurial work of project leaders throughout the world, who are bringing innovative, empowering solutions to challenging social problems at the local community level. All donations made to projects go through the GlobalGiving Foundation and are fully tax-deductible.

Get Up
www.getup.org.au
GetUp brings together like-minded people who want to bring participation back into our democracy. GetUp has a core team of staff and volunteers in Sydney, who conduct research on new campaigns, develop the website, prepare GetUp email updates and raise awareness of our campaigns in the media.